Janice Jones Monk, Australian lecturer at the University of Arizona (USA) and one of the main promoters of gender geography, has been nominated to receive an honorary doctorate by the UAB after being proposed for the nomination by the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts. Monk has been awarded the doctorate during the ceremony which has taken place on 16 October to inaugurate the academic year at the faculty. Maria Dolors García Ramon, professor of the Department of Geography, has been the sponsor of the honorary degree, and Ferran Sancho, Rector of the UAB, has been presiding over the event.

Tim Allen is a theoretical ecologist at the University of Wisconsin (USA) pioneer in the so-called hierarchy theory. Taking advantage of his visit to the UAB, we ask him three questions on the inability of science to deal with environmental problems and on the contribution that this theory can make to overcome the current impasse.